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...case in all investigations, officials want to point not merely to the hardware responsible for the accident but also to the people responsible for mission safety. In 1990 a NASA-commissioned study looked into the problem of tile damage and warned of some of the very problems that might have occurred on Columbia's final flight. A study conducted in September pointed to debris breaking off the external fuel tank in the first 80 seconds of flight. Whether NASA officials could have done more with this information or whether the flaws were woven too deeply into the shuttles will become...
Looking for something to do, Jordan offers Emily a tofu tile...
...second explanation might be a loss of tiles leading to a burn-through. (The shuttle is covered with heat-resistant tiles to protect the craft and those inside it from burning up in the scorching temperatures caused by the friction of reentry.) But I think that explanation is unlikely, because the tile-loss would have had to have been quite substantial for that to become possible. You'll hear a lot in the next few days about things falling off the shuttle during liftoff. But it often happens that they lose a few tiles, and I'd be surprised...
Grant, Jon A. Daniels ’03 and Noah C. Eisenkraft ’04 demonstrate how the game is played, arranging two sets of Scrabble tiles face-down on the table. A player flips up one tile at a time, until someone calls out a word—at least four letters—that he has formed from the visible letters. Most of the time they don’t keep score; it’s just for fun. You can keep score by either a) counting up the points on the Scrabble tiles (which hardly ever...
...placid skies on Sunday afternoon belie the fevered pitch in Quincy House Courtyard as two titans of the tiles met to see which Harvard student can best spell long and/or obscure words out of tiny white squares. A stoic Thomas, clad in a blue-and-gray shirt and khakis, shakes hands with a fidgety Washkowitz. Drawing letters from the bag to determine who goes first, Washkowitz wins. Shifting in his seat, he squints in the sunlight and scrutinizes his rack, placing VOID on the board. Thomas quickly counters with MAT, using the “A” to morph...